STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1325

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2017

RE:   S.B. No. 1298

      S.D. 1

      H.D. 1

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2017

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Labor & Public Employment, to which was referred S.B. No. 1298, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO RESIDENCE REQUIREMENTS FOR APPOINTED OFFICERS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to allow an appointing authority to waive the one-year residency requirement for appointed officers when the appointed officer is employed as the head of a county police department.

The State of Hawaii Organization of Police Officers testified in opposition.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by replacing its contents with the language of H.B. No. 1534, H.D. 1, which is similar to this measure and was heard by this Committee earlier this session.  As amended, this measure removes the one-year residency requirement for all appointed officers who are department heads and deputies or assistants to a department head.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Labor & Public Employment that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1298, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1298, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Judiciary.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Labor & Public Employment,

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AARON LING JOHANSON, Chair